“What if the President came out tomorrow and said, ‘Within ten years, we are going to become petroleum-independent. We are going to change our energy source.’ Think about what the implications of that would be.”

The Wisconsin governor played it very safe in Israel. But he was just fulfilling the new rite of passage to American campaigning — one that’s a source of pride and concern in Israel, and a superficial but serious feature of GOP politics.

“What position can a person who believes in traditional marriage… what position can they take that would be satisfactory to the gay community?” The conservative doctor talks health care, welfare, and Ted Cruz.

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“Certain communicable diseases have been largely eradicated by immunization policies in this country and we should not allow those diseases to return by foregoing safe immunization programs, for philosophical, religious or other reasons when we have the means to eradicate them.”

Nearly 20 years ago, Carson argued for government-run catastrophic health care and “national guidelines” on how and when the very ill should be treated. Carson himself calls his proposals “fairly radical.”